Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

For the sake of users and advertisers, a social media platform that values “free speech” as much as Elon Musk’s Twitter claims to is nothing without dedicated across-the-board (meaning free to all ...

Most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the U.S., where several social media platforms have recently modified their ...

The article is here; the Introduction: Over the past several decades, a combination of a laissez-faire regulatory environment and Section 230's statutory protections for platform content-moderation ...

A federal judge has rejected X Corp's request to block enforcement of a new California law that requires social media platforms to post content moderation policies and provide reports to the state ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff announced a Request for Information (RFI) on February 20 seeking public comments on “how consumers may have been harmed by technology platforms that limited their ...